The socialist municipal group in the Madrid City Council is going to request the “urgent” appearance of the manager of the Activities Agency in the next Urban Planning commission, the group says in a statement released this Friday morning. The commission will be held on October 21, 10 days from now. It does so a day after the news became known that the City Council has appealed the rulings by which different contentious-Administrative courts annulled the four municipal licenses with which 50 ghost kitchens operated, which the socialists call a “scandal.” ”. The court ruling determined that the perceptive report on the environmental impact of the establishments was not made when processing the permits.
Precisely, the socialist councilor responsible for Urban Planning, Antonio Giraldo, has reproached Cibeles that the four sentences that annul the four licenses are due to lack of environmental evaluation, which “can harm the neighbors.” “It’s a scandal,” he says. He also says he feels surprised that the City Council is going to appeal one more sentence after having already dismissed his appeal against the first sentence.
More Madrid also joins the position of the socialists. The party’s spokesperson councilor on the Urban Planning Commission, José Luis Nieto, has described as “regrettable” the attitude of the mayor, José Luis Martínez Almeida, towards the residents affected by these establishments. “Industrial kitchens cannot be located in residential areas and environmental control by the City Council of existing ones should be much more demanding,” he noted.
The sentences closed 50 kitchens located on 6 Imperial Street (center) and 18 Canillas Street (Chamartín) and occurred after three years of neighborhood protests. Residents of both areas claim that since 2020 they have suffered hundreds of problems due to the pollution and noise generated by these places, which operate as restaurants, but only serve food at home.
They claim to be “absolutely outraged” by the appeal. “It is not acceptable that these businesses, after four years, are still in the center of Madrid and next to homes, and we do not understand why the City Council has appealed again,” Esther Lomas, who lives in the area, explained to this newspaper. neighborhood of one of the industrial warehouses. Lomas has denounced that, before the ruling that annulled the operating license, the expense of the lawsuit already exceeded 35,000 euros and denounces that continuing with the process “represents another tremendous outlay” for the inhabitants of both areas.
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